legal and compliance

There’s no two-second rule when it comes to the law, and in today’s legal environment, maintaining compliance is crucial now more than ever.
This ebook provides an overview of the labor laws that impact restaurants today and the high cost of non-compliance. It also presents the features of an automated system that gives restaurants the capabilities they need to meet today’s increasingly complex labor compliance regulations—so they can avoid the high price of non-compliance and create work environments that better serve their employees’ needs and rights.

DocuSign electronic signatures are valid and legally binding around the world. In fact, they are more enforceable than traditional handwritten signatures. Hear from DocuSign's Chief Legal Officer, Ken Moyle, and DocuSign's Founder, Tom Gonser, about how DocuSign delivers the highest levels of legal enforceability and is the only eSignature provider to warrant compliance with the Federal ESIGN Act.

It is no secret; security and compliance are at the top of the list of concerns tied to cloud adoption. According to a recent 2017 Cloud Security survey to over 350,000 members of the LinkedIn Information Security Community, IT pros have general concerns about security in the cloud (33 percent), in addition to data loss and leakage risks (26 percent) and legal and regulatory compliance (24 percent)1. The number of reported breaches in enterprise datacenter environments still far exceeds the reported exposure from cloud platforms, but as businesses start using public clouds to run their mission-critical workloads, the need for enterprise-grade security in the cloud will increase.
Public cloud environments require a centralized, consolidated platform for security that is built from the ground up for the cloud, and allows administrators to monitor and actively enforce security policies. The tools and techniques that worked to secure datacenter environments fail miserably in the cloud. Se

Reasonable, common-sense security standards are becoming law in many regions of the world. In Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enacted in April 2016, will become fully applicable on May 25, 2018. GDPR will bring the European Union (EU) under one comprehensive and harmonised legal system for data protection and privacy. The monetary penalties and reputational damage of noncompliance with GDPR are substantial – the maximum fines are the greater of 20 million euros or 4% of the company’s worldwide revenue.

The sponsor named below commissioned Ardent Partners to write this report. While the report topic In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive greater value through sourcing and procurement. For Chief Procurement Officers ("CPOs") and other supply management leaders, collaboration has taken on many new and innovative forms over the years, causing these executives to leverage new (and, in some cases, existing) processes, relationships, and technologies to enhance compliance, decrease risk, and increase savings. One such business process, contract management, has been reborn with digital, automated features that can shift the way procurement teams collaborate, mitigate risk, drive performance, and realize greater savings for the enterprise.

"Industry experts predict that successful businesses will soon become 100% digital for all transactions. The key challenge is how to “go digital” in the right ways. For most companies, it will be an incremental journey.
TodaysGeneralCounsel.com suggests that organisations should focus on a broad enterprise-wide information governance strategy developed by IT, legal, records and business stakeholders. Doing so improves governance, risk management and compliance programs.
This best practices paper outlines seven important ways that legal teams can make meaningful progress in their digital transformations."
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e-Discovery remains a top driver for investment in archiving technologies. The need to reduce legal cost and risk is growing. But meeting e-discovery and compliance demands quickly and defensibly is difficult for most organizations.
This short Q & A, “Preparing for Tomorrow’s Archive?” features Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Cheryl McKinnon and will help you understand the key features you should look for when planning your litigation readiness strategy.

Mimecast Cloud Archive has long set the industry standard for enterprise information archiving, helping to keep corporate knowledge available, protecting and preserving it while simplifying management and administration.
By aggregating data across multiple platforms, organizations gain long-term business insights and create a secure, digital corporate memory while at the same time reducing costs and risks for legal and compliance teams. IT teams can reduce administrative overhead with streamlined management and simplified data recovery. Anytime, anywhere access to archive data improves employee productivity and efficient workflow efficiency.
Customers can rest assured that their data is always-available, always-replicated and always-safe.

Leading bank shares best practices, results of IT compliance implementation. Zions Bancorporation is a leader in SBA lending, public finance advisory services, and agricultural finance. Which means compliance is critical, both to internal workflows and legal mandates like Sarbanes-Oxley.With nearly 25% of the enterprise virtualized, it became clear to IT leaders at Zions that an advanced solution to IT compliance was required. Attend the webinar.

The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – is a European
Union (EU) law that protects the rights of individuals with respect to
their data. Adopted as an EU law in April 2016, organizations that hold
data about any resident of the EU must be compliant by May 2018.
With attention-grabbing fines of €20 million or 4% of global annual
turnover, GDPR commands attention at the highest levels. And despite
the “legalese” that compliance suggests brands utilize, the brands that
balance legal compliance with a human approach will turn GDPR to
their advantage.
This white paper provides a series of actions you can take to make
the most of GDPR to both enhance your customer relationships and
mitigate risk.

Imagine being able to find the perfect bartender to staff a five-star resort or hire an Italian chef for a week in Switzerland - all in real time, all with zero human touch, with digital contracts and signatures, all revenue passing through the platform, all payments made within 48 hours - tax, legal and regulatory compliance included. We made it happen for our client.

With Quest Workspacetm Asset Manager, you can easily find data on hardware and software inventory and compare it to records on what's been purchased as well as what's actually in use. Centrally track and manage the IT contracts and licenses then generate usage reports automatically that you easily correlate to actual purchase costs and legal responsibilities. For managing software licenses, Quest Workspacetm Asset Manager goes beyond simply scanning and identifying software. It traces software usage through metering and quickly identifies if it's being underutilized, sitting idle or if the appropriate number of licenses have been purchased. From one solution, you can implement IT asset management best practices that eliminate overspending and ensure license compliance.

NAVEX Global commissioned an independent third party study of over 300 Ethics and Compliance senior level decision makers in compliance, HR, legal and risk roles across multiple industries, to understand how they are allocating their budgets and which activities are contributing to their program success. Download this spending research report to benchmark your program and use these key lessons from your peers to boost your ethics and compliance programs' effectiveness.

This technical brief streamlines and simplifies the key issues in the new regulatory landscape and provides information to help inform important business decisions regarding Wellness programs. "The Legal Environment of Wellness" offers in depth information abuot wellness program requirements under the ACA, and reviews how corporate wellness programs are impacted by the rulings of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and HIPAA. In addition to the ACA, it covers information companies need to be aware of regarding how other legislation may impact their health promotion efforts. Choosing a new wellness program or bringing current programs into compliance will require a thorough understanding of new and existing laws and sometimes complex decisions and structural redesign.

Many CFOs and the finance organizations they lead have started to take on new strategic roles within the enterprise. Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking.

Today, more than ever before, legal and compliance issues are driving the case for email archiving. Email archiving legislation is complex and varies greatly from country to country. Unless companies are well versed in compliance law, the various regulations affecting email can be a minefield.

Information security policy development should not be a one-time event. In order to effectively reduce risk and maintain a proper governance structure, organizations must periodically update written security policies as part of an ongoing management process.

"In April 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its final rule regarding financial and fiduciary disclosures. Many firms are in the early stages of assessing the rule’s impact, sorting through legal interpretations, and preparing for regulatory compliance. To understand who’s affected, what’s changed, and the impact to your business, read the white paper to learn how DocuSign can help you digitize your document agreements and:
• Satisfy compliance requirements by enabling you to automate disclosures with a tamper-proof audit trail.
• Delight your customers by providing a greatly improved user experience compared to paper-based document transactions.
• Meet critical deadlines with rapid implementation using DocuSign’s SaaS-based solution."

Financial Services firms are moving into a new phase in the evolution of communications oversight and face challenges ranging from new and changing regulations to employee privacy. Learn how legal, compliance and IT professionals are managing compliance and e-discovery for email, Web, IM, social media, enterprise social networks, corporate issued mobile devices and the bring your own device (BYOD) trend.

Email archiving is emerging as a critical new IT application for managing email. For legal discovery, storage management, and regulatory compliance, email archiving provides important benefits that cannot be achieved with native email applications. The purpose of this “Email Archiving 101” paper is to provide a basic introduction to email archiving and explain how it benefits management of the email application server. The leading enterprise email application is Microsoft® Exchange Server, and this paper is geared toward this application; however, the principles discussed apply to all messaging applications.

Manage Electronic Records, Minimize Workplace Risks and Maximize Compliance. Learn about the legal and compliance regulations associated with maintaining your business critical emails. Understand how your business could face legal issues if a proper archiving solution is not in place.